agritech

Agritech Start-up KisanServ, which turns wet waste compost, organised a farmers’ meet to distribute free organic composts. This initiative is said to help the company join hands with large housing societies and help them process wet waste. Processed wet waste will be turned into organic compost for farmers. Increasing food consumption, urbanisation, growth in large housing societies and ...

Traditionally, agriculture was looked at as the government's responsibility but now there are more players recognizing gaps in the value chain and finding ways to improve this segment.  There is a movement of talent growing in the agri zone to address these gaps, which is the reason that the agritech sector is booming in India. ...

Crofarm forayed into business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) space and has launched the platform Otipy, India's first social commerce model to connect consumers with farmers through resellers. India's fastest growing farm to fork agritech start-up Crofarm has raised Pre-Series A funding of $1 million led by Smile Group. Varun Khurana, Co-Founder & CEO, Crofram, said, “We are a technology-enabled ...

Contributing about 15% to India’s GDP, the agricultural sector sustains almost half the population of the country. Interestingly, more than 265 million people in India are engaged in farming, which also makes it one of the largest employers in the country. More than 70% of rural India is employed in this space, running their ...

India holds the second-largest agricultural land in the world with around 60% of the rural population involved in the business of agriculture. However, India had hardly succeeded in attracting educated individuals for business purposes in the agricultural sector before the technological intervention happened here. The face of the Indian agricultural sector has started to change ...